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Entertainer Lady Gaga takes a photo with her phone while introducing her Grey Label product line for Polaroid during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 6. The annual convention, the world's largest consumer technology trade show, was held from Jan. 6 to 9 and showcased the products expected to make the biggest splash in 2011. Steve Marcus/Reuters

Film director Baz Luhrmann (r.) speaks as directors Oliver Stone (c.) and Michael Mann look on at the Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Directors Panel at the Panasonic CES 2011 booth in Las Vegas on Jan. 7. Dan Steinberg/AP Images for Panasonic

CEO of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, tries on a pair of prescription 3D glasses made by Samsung at the Samsung keynote address during CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 6. Rick Wilking/Reuters

Ford CEO Alan Mulally kisses the hood of a just-announced Ford Focus Electric car as it arrives on stage for his keynote address at CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 7. Rick Wilking/Reuters

A Panasonic HDC-TM900 camcorder with a VW-CLT1 3D converter lens is shown during CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 7. Steve Marcus/Reuters

A General Motors Electric Networked Vehicle (EN-V) concept car is driven around a course setup outside the Las Vegas Convention Center, in conjunction with CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 7. The EN-V includes a feature that would allow the vehicle to park itself and return to the user when summoned by a smart phone application. Sam Abuelsamid/General Motors/Reuters

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment President Mike Dunn (r.) talks to 'Darth Vader' as he announces the Blu Ray release of the complete Star Wars movie saga during CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 6. Steve Marcus/Reuters

A man plays a Kinect for XBox 360 boxing game at the Microsoft booth during CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 9. Steve Marcus/Reuters

A Neato XV-11 robotic vacuum system cleans a carpet at CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 7. The robot is equipped with a laser vision mapping system so that it can cover the entire area of each room, and returns to a charging base when low on battery power. Steve Marcus/Reuters

After widespread protests, a six-month state of emergency started in October. Now, much depends on the next move of leaders who have long used their track record of economic development to paper over widespread human rights abuses and political repression.

ByJames Jeffrey, ContributorDecember 9, 2016

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For nearly a year, mass protests surged across Ethiopia – and stormed across the world’s headlines – as a movement that began with farmers fighting land grabs outside the country’s capital mushroomed into the country’s most sustained and widespread period of dissent and protests since its ruling party came to power more than two decades ago.